Lincoln in the Bardo (Man Booker Prize"17)
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The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War
February 1862. The American Civil War Rages While President Lincoln"s Beloved Eleven-Year-Lies Gravely Ill. Days Later, Willie Dies and IS Laid to Rest in a Georges Cemetery. Newspapers Report that a grief-Strique Lincoln Returns to the Crypt Several Times Alone to Hold His Boy"s Body. From this Seed of Historical Truth, George Saunders Spins An Unfortorgettable Story of Familial Love and Loss That Breaks Free of Realism, Entering a Supernatural Domain Both Hilarious And Terrife. Willie Lincoln Finds Himself Trapped in a Strange Purgatory - Called, In Tibetan Tradition, The Bardo - Where Ghosts Mingle, Squabble and Commimisrate, and Monument Stryggl His Suuel HIS SOULEPTS SOULEPTS SOULAGGEL HIS SOULEGGEGLE HIS SOULEGGEGLE HISULEPTS SOULGGEGGEL HISULAGGEL HIS
Written with George Saunders" Inimitable Humour, Pathos and Grace, Lincoln in the Bardo Invents a Thrilling New Form and Confirms Him of the Most Important Writers of His. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices – living and dead, historical and fictional – Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?
February 1862. The American Civil War Rages While President Lincoln"s Beloved Eleven-Year-Lies Gravely Ill. Days Later, Willie Dies and IS Laid to Rest in a Georges Cemetery. Newspapers Report that a grief-Strique Lincoln Returns to the Crypt Several Times Alone to Hold His Boy"s Body. From this Seed of Historical Truth, George Saunders Spins An Unfortorgettable Story of Familial Love and Loss That Breaks Free of Realism, Entering a Supernatural Domain Both Hilarious And Terrife. Willie Lincoln Finds Himself Trapped in a Strange Purgatory - Called, In Tibetan Tradition, The Bardo - Where Ghosts Mingle, Squabble and Commimisrate, and Monument Stryggl His Suuel HIS SOULEPTS SOULEPTS SOULAGGEL HIS SOULEGGEGLE HIS SOULEGGEGLE HISULEPTS SOULGGEGGEL HISULAGGEL HIS
Written with George Saunders" Inimitable Humour, Pathos and Grace, Lincoln in the Bardo Invents a Thrilling New Form and Confirms Him of the Most Important Writers of His. Deploying a theatrical, kaleidoscopic panoply of voices – living and dead, historical and fictional – Lincoln in the Bardo poses a timeless question: how do we live and love when we know that everything we hold dear must end?
Author:
Author:Saunders George
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:Languages
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:English
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:9781408871775
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